Jacques Miquelon was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Quebec

Quebec

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. He represented Abitibi-Est in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec

Legislative Assembly of Quebec

The Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the name of the lower house of Quebec's legislature until 1968, when it was renamed the National Assembly of Quebec. At the same time, the upper house of the legislature, the Legislative Council, was abolished...

 from 1948 to 1960 as a member of the Union Nationale.

He was born in Danville, Quebec

Danville, Quebec

Danville is a town in the administrative region of Estrie, in the Canadian province of Quebec. As of the 2006 Canadian Census, the population was 4,041....

, the son of Arsène-Cyr Miquelon and Éveline Picard who was the daughter of Jacques Picard

Jacques Picard

Jacques Picard was a notary and political figure in Quebec. He represented Richmond-Wolfe from 1867 to 1890 and Wolfe from 1890 to 1892 as a Conservative member in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec....

. Miquelon was educated in Danville, at the Séminaire de Québec and at the Université Laval

Université Laval

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. He was called to the Quebec bar in 1934 and set up practice first at Quebec City

Quebec City

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 and then, in 1937, at Malartic

Malartic, Quebec

Malartic is a town on the Malartic River in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality. It is located about east of the centre of Rouyn-Noranda along Quebec Route 117 and the Canadian National Railway....

. Miquelon served as solicitor for the Department of the Attorney General and for the Liquor Commission at Amos

Amos, Quebec

Amos is a ville in northwestern Quebec, Canada, on the Harricana River. It is the seat of Abitibi Regional County Municipality.Amos is the main city on the Harricana River, and the smallest of the three primary cities — after Rouyn-Noranda and Val-d'Or — in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec...

. He was director for two mining companies and also was president of the Chamber of Commerce for Malartic. He married Suzanne Turcotte in 1938; he later married Germaine Voyer after his first wife's death. In 1946, he was named King's Counsel. Miquelon served in the Quebec cabinet as Minister of State from 1952 to 1959, Attorney General in 1959 and 1960 and Minister of Lands and Forests in 1960. He was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1960 and 1962. In 1962, Miquelon returned to the practice of law in Montreal

Montreal

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. From 1968 to 1978, he was judge in the Social Welfare Court at Montreal. He died in Montreal at the age of 92.

His nephew André Bourbeau

André Bourbeau

André Bourbeau, CQ is a former Canadian politician.Born in Verdun, Quebec, the son of Louis-Auguste Bourbeau and Antoinette Miquelon, Bourbeau studied at the Séminaire de Sherbrooke and the University of Montreal before receiving a Diploma in Law from McGill University in 1959. He became a notary...

also served in the Quebec assembly.

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